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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

ADDISON OVERBAGH, OF SGHOHARIE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN AXLE-BOXES.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 155,747, dated October 6, 1874; application filed May 5, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADDISON OVERBAGH, of Schoharie, in the county of Schoharie and in the State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lubricating Oar-Journals; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to car axle journalboxes in which a disk or wheel provided with an inwardly-projecting circumferential rim is attached to and revolved with the car-axle; and the nature of my invention consists in combining with such axle and wheel or disk, and the usual bearing block on top of the journal, a collar, placed loosely around the hub of the wheel, and provided with an arm having a scraper and spout attached to it, and a gutter-shaped arm attached to the bearing-block, which arm is forked at its outer end to straddle the collar-arm, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe the ordinary manner. On the end of the axle B is secured a wheel, D, around the circumference of which is a rim, at, extending inward, as shown. Around the hub of the Wheel D is placed a loose collar, b, from which a curved arm, G, extends inward and against the inner side of the rim a, the extreme end of said arm being formed with a scraper, h. Upon the arm G, a short distance below the scraper, is attached a short spout, d, as shown. From at or near the outer end of the bearing-block (J extends an arm, J, outward and upward, the outer end of said arm being forked, and straddling the curved arm G below the spout d. The upper side of the armJ is concave or grooved longitudinally, forming a gutter.

As the axle B revolves the wheel D revolves with it, being permanently attached thereto;

and the curved arm G with its scraper is held stationary by the arm J attached to the bearing-block O. The rim a of the wheel D carries the oil up with it, and the scraper h takes it off from the rim, and causes it to pass to the spout d, and from thence along the guttershaped arm J to the top of the bearing-block.

collar b, arm Gr, scraper h, spout d, and forked gutter-shaped arm J, all constructed substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto setmy hand this 17th day of April, 1874.

ADDISON OVERBAGH.

Witnesses:

A. N. MARE, O. L. EVER'L- 

